{"id":7788,"date":"2022-04-17T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2022-04-17T20:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T19:05:27","slug":"charts-15-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7788","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 15 April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had some dull singles charts lately, but gosh, this is a really boring one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5v3kku4y6Q\"><strong>1. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;As It Was&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second week &#8211; which is more than he managed with his only other solo number one, &#8220;Sign of the Times&#8221;, back in 2017. It was closer than expected; at the start of the week his lead over the single below was equivalent to a few hundred sales, but it wound up being in the thousands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Jack Harlow &#8211; &#8220;First Class&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmP_wGYw1_g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is&#8230; a surprise, to be honest. Jack Harlow has had two previous top 40 hits in the UK &#8211; &#8220;Whats Poppin&#8221;, which reached number 25 in 2020, and his guest shot on Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Industry Baby&#8221;, which got to number 3 last year. His previous single &#8220;Nail Tech&#8221; missed the top 40, so he&#8217;s certainly not here on the strength of fanbase. I wouldn&#8217;t have thought this was an obvious candidate for a breakthrough hit &#8211; the chorus is lifted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q0SyUgw98tE\">&#8220;Glamorous&#8221; by Fergie<\/a>, which is one of her better singles, but hardly a lost classic. (It reached number 6 in 2007.) Harlow&#8217;s version is better, mind you.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>20. David Guetta, Becky Hill &amp; Ella Henderson &#8211; &#8220;Crazy What Love Can Do&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHby74kKc4s\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is David Guetta&#8217;s second concurrent hit &#8211; &#8220;What Would You Do&#8221;, with Joel Corry and Bryson Tiller, is a non-mover at 24 this week. Becky Hill and Ella Henderson are both regular hired guns on mainstream dance hits, but bringing them both in seems a bit redundant. The single is&#8230; fine, I guess? It&#8217;s polished radio dance, and there&#8217;s not much more to be said about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Digga D &#8211; &#8220;Hold It Down&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TF8QBzIURE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a series of teaser singles released in support of his mixtape &#8220;Noughty By Nature&#8221;, which should be on the album chart next week. The first one made the top ten, two more have just missed the top 40. This is a quiet week, so it scrapes in. The sample, of course, comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cDMhlvbOFaM\">50 Cent&#8217;s &#8220;21 Questions&#8221;<\/a> (which in turn sampled &#8220;It&#8217;s Only Love Doing It&#8217;s Thing&#8221;, a 1978 Barry White album track &#8211; but it chopped it up pretty heavily, so &#8220;21 Questions&#8221; is the reference point here).<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; that&#8217;s it, in another quiet week for singles. This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Go&#8221; by Cat Burns<\/strong> climbs 6-5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bam Bam&#8221; by Camila Cabello featuring Ed Sheeran<\/strong> climbs to 9 after two weeks at number 10. Thrilling, right? He still has two singles in the top 10, with &#8220;Peru&#8221; at number 6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Light Switch&#8221; by Charlie Puth<\/strong> climbs 30-26, having finally made the top 30 last week in its twelfth week out. It&#8217;s taking forever to get anywhere, but it&#8217;s not going away. It&#8217;s this week&#8217;s biggest climber, which obviously isn&#8217;t saying much.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Birthday Cake&#8221; by Dylan Conrique<\/strong> climbs 37-36.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three tracks dropping out of the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Come &amp; Go&#8221; by ArrDee.<\/strong> Five weeks on the top 40, peaking in its first week at number 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Beg For You&#8221; by Charli XCX featuring Rina Sawayama.<\/strong> It spent ten weeks on the top 40 but seven of them were in the 30s &#8211; it never got above number 24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;When You&#8217;re Gone&#8221; by Shawn Mendes<\/strong>, which entered at number 32 last week. Ouch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Hey Hey Rise Up&#8221; by Pink Floyd featuring Andriy Khlyvnyuk<\/strong>, which was number 13 in the midweeks, turns out to have got there on the strength of downloads in the first couple of days; it winds up at an underwhelming number 48.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Wet Leg &#8211; &#8220;Wet Leg&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zd9jeJk2UHQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Debut album. They&#8217;re from the Isle of Wight, and they&#8217;ve picked up a surprising amount of mainstream support for a band who seem to be somewhere in the tradition of Art Brut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Father John Misty &#8211; &#8220;Chloe and the Next 20th Century&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ES2WW4JJ_84\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s easily his highest-placing album, though 2017&#8217;s &#8220;Pure Comedy&#8221; did make the top ten. His albums regularly make the top 20, but this is a fairly busy week at the top of the album chart, so I&#8217;m surprised to see him quite this high. Good jellyfish work in the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Jack White &#8211; &#8220;Fear of the Dawn&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R3xPyPEOmmM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s his highest chart position since his 2012 solo debut &#8220;Blunderbuss&#8221; got to number 1. Not by much, mind you &#8211; two of his other albums made the top 5. You know what you&#8217;re getting with Jack White &#8211; though to be fair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fPA67w3J_g0\">this other single is a bit more off-brand<\/a>. I like the micro-budget video above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Kae Tempest &#8211; &#8220;The Line is a Curve&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dulGZcuK1d0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the former Kate Tempest, who changed their name after coming out as non-binary last year. Their previous best was number 28 for 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Let Them Eat Chaos&#8221;, so this is a big step up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Camila Cabello &#8211; &#8220;Familia&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As already mentioned, the single &#8220;Bam Bam&#8221; is at 9. It&#8217;s her third solo album; 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Camila&#8221; got to number 2, 2019&#8217;s &#8220;Romance&#8221; got to 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Passenger &#8211; &#8220;Birds That Flew &amp; Ships That Sailed&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2e4v5oVRmQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the guy who did &#8220;Let Her Go&#8221; in 2013. Until now he&#8217;s done quite well in the album charts, with all but one of his albums making the top 10 (in fact, all but two of them made the top 5). So a number 37 position&#8230; clearly a disaster, and the decision to put it out as a surprise release seems to have backfired badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had some dull singles charts lately, but gosh, this is a really boring one. 1. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;As It Was&#8221; Second week &#8211; which is more than he managed with his only other solo number one, &#8220;Sign of the Times&#8221;, back in 2017. 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